Word: raeder
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hundreds of German officers and troops were reported moving into Italy as mentors for the Italian Army. Grand Admiral Erich Raeder appeared there to advise the Italian Fleet. Large numbers of Italian officers & men were reported moving into Germany through the Brenner Pass, to make the Axis effort look more joint...
...German Navy set up northern headquarters in Oslo and Grand Admiral Erich Raeder there visited Admiral Hermann Boehm, commander of the Nazis Norse naval district...
...Admiral Raeder was putting pressure on Germany's fitting up of Oslo Fjord, Bergen and Trondheim as submarine bases, and on the laying down of new tonnage-merchant as well as naval- in Norse and Danish shipyards...
...full retreat, the German High Command contradicted both Goebbels and D. N. B., claimed officially to have "destroyed" one heavy cruiser, two light cruisers, eight destroyers, ten submarines, one transport. But Grand Admiral Erich Raeder asserted that "German warship .losses as alleged by the Allies are not in accordance with the facts. The reported sinking or beaching of the Gneisenau and Scharnhorst, as well as the cruiser Liitzow, is completely invented. The same holds good for the alleged sinking of the Lloyd express steamship Bremen." (The sinking of the Bremen and the pocket battleship Liitzow was never officially claimed...
...assist Carls in Adolf Hitler's cold-blooded act of sacrificing his scattered Navy to gain windows on the Atlantic. Opposed to that sacrifice, on the ground that the situation it would create could not be maintained, was the German Navy's Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, again reported last week...